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The councilor of this training, Gloria Martín, budgetary requirement to address the expansion of such organic staff of the hospital Rafael Mendez and make public the "premiums" that charge the managers of the Health Area III Management "for saving staff and cut on the health of users "
to the Councilor of the United Left-Greens, Gloria Martín, has denounced the "infamous" waiting lists, which affect users of Health Area III in both Primary Care and Specialties.
Martín explained, for example, that the services of General Surgery, Urology, Digestive and Dermatology, are scheduled for April and May 2018, within eight months.
Patients from other specialties such as Allergy (11/1/18), Ophthalmology (16/3/18) or Rheumatology (12/3/18) will not be treated until the first quarter of next year.
Those of cardiology, where the ratio of specialists is less than other areas of the Murcian Health Service, will have to wait two months.
The mayor explained that, confidentially, some employees of this service have alerted you that the policy of the Health Area III Management is "give high" to avoid hiring new doctors of this specialty.
Other problems that affect the specialist deficit are related to the hiring model of the Management "that discourages" when making new hires.
"Six-month contracts are being offered, so doctors opt to work in other areas that provide more job stability," Martín lamented.
The mayor of IU-Verdes said that the deficit of doctors in the Health Area III is due to an "organic staff deficit", far below that of Murcia or Cartagena, in all categories, in proportion to the population served.
In this regard, Martín demanded an explanation for this "comparative grievance" and more budget allocation to be able to address the extension of said organic staff, as well as a recruitment model that encourages specialists to stay in Lorca.
Regarding the lack of specialist doctors, Martín finds it incomprehensible that with the medical schools in Spain almost doubled (from 28 in 2009 to 43 in 2016), MIR vacancies have not been increased at the same rate, which has caused more than half of the applicants this year have run out of places (13,439 applicants for 6,328 places this year).
"It is an absurdity that missing so many doctors, half of the graduates are left without completing their training," and therefore has demanded the Ministry of Health to urge the Ministry of Health an increase in the places offered by virtue of the demand for the autonomous communities.
Martín also asked to know to what extent the "saving" in the health of the patients by the lack of hiring of these doctors results "in the premiums that the managers of the Management are charging" and "in what amounts of money they are made" .
Lastly, he called for data to be made public on referrals for diagnostic tests and surgical interventions to private hospitals, encouraged in part by remodeling some services such as Gynecology and Trauma "that last for years."
In that sense, he criticized the model applied by the regional government, which he described as a "sanitary strike", by which "public health is dismantled to inflate the profits of the private sector, where the economic profitability rather than the quality of care" .
The councilor of IU-Greens said that it is an "assault" on the public health system whose consequences are paying "very expensive" users of Area III.
"It is indecent that people suffering from a disease that depletes their quality of life have to wait months and months to be diagnosed and treated because the regional government has decided to turn health care into a business and transform essential rights into privileges," he said.
One week waiting in Primary Care
Gloria Martín also said that in most health centers in Area III there are waiting lists of more than a week to care for patients, which increases demand in Sutullena's SUAP and in the ER of Rafael Méndez Hospital, where there are also no medical staff, nurses and sufficient caretakers.
This implies an overload of work for the professionals and an important delay in the attention of the users.
This situation is especially acute in summer, when a doctor has to attend two consultations, plus emergencies and home delivery.
As a result, a collapse leads to a waiting list of five to eight days to be attended by the family doctor.
For the mayor of IU-Verdes, an increase in the recruitment of doctors in Primary Care would increase the quality of care and improve the doctor-patient relationship, which leads to fewer emergency referrals, better management of medical expenses with consequent saving for Social Security and prescription of both drugs and diagnostic tests, as well as the decrease of medical and psychological complications for the patient.
Finally, optimizing the material and human resources of the health system, improving personnel management and betting on the coordination between Management, Primary and Specialized, would guarantee a public health of quality, universal and sustainable, Martín explained.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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